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CASE OF MELANOSIS. 
By John Tombs, M.R.C.V.S., Stratford-on-Avon. 
Feb. 7th, 1857. — My attendance was requested to an aged 
gray cart-mare, belonging to a farmer live miles hence, which 
had been under the care of a farrier for five weeks, who had 
told the owner that she would soon be fit for work, as she was 
only lame in the “ round bone” from a slip, and for which 
he had inserted a rowel. When I saw the mare, I observed 
that she was much emaciated, had a quick pulse and no 
appetite. When down she could not rise without assistance, 
and on being walked out she went stiffly with the off hind 
limb. On examination I could only discover a slight tume- 
faction situated between the spinous processes of the ilium, 
and extending a little way down on one side in the course 
of the obliquus externus abdominalis. 
Prognosis unfavorable 
She only lived to the 10th. 
Post-mortem examination . — Liver much enlarged, hardened, 
and full of black tubercles, which, when cut into, were found 
to contain an ink-like fluid, which stained the scalpel. A 
large melanotic tumour also rested on the brim of the pelvis, 
from which it reached downwards to the extent of eight 
inches. The tumour was enveloped in a thick membrane, 
and connected with it were several others lying chiefly on 
the inner surface of the ilium, but extending through the 
foramen to the upper and outer side of the bone, where one 
of considerable size was placed, which accounted for the en- 
largement of this part that I had observed prior to death. From 
the pelvis to the diaphragm, and lying in close contact with the 
posterior aorta, was an unbroken chain of small melanotic 
tumours precisely like the one before described. I have 
made a great many autopsies in the course of my profes- 
sional career, but never saw such extensive disease as existed 
in this case. 
SINGULAR CASE OF STRANGLES AND DISEASED 
GLANDS. 
By the Same. 
The subject of this disease was a black cart-horse, five 
years old, to which my attention was called on April Sd, 
1857. 
